The experience of using Photostory3 was new to me. Certain aspects of it were very easy. The loading of the pictures went smoothly. The slide transitions and music were easy to add. I particularly liked the quality of the music available from the Photostory library. Recording the voice over was very difficult and I struggled for a couple of days before I finally switched to a different laptop and then it worked fine. Apparently the microphone is disabled in the original laptop. I should have thought to switch earlier. Saving the project was no problem although since Photostory3 is not a standard option on RPS computers I had to load it on two different machines which toke a little time.
Embedding the video into my Face of the Library web page was somewhat difficult. Weebly does not allow for the video to be inserted unless you upgrade to a paid site.
I did embed the video but I don't think it will play.
http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php
The Blogger.com Blog will not load the video either so this is frustrating.
While I was creating the Photostory3 video I did share it with library staff members. They felt it looked great but that my music choice was not to their liking. The boogie woogie jazz piano music was not appropriate. I considered switching it to classical music but you can't please everyone.
I am a bit reluctant to share Photostory 3 with the staff at large due to bandwidth problems here at RPS. Also the fact that each teacher would have to request to have loaded on their machine might raise hackles in our operation technology department. Given the difficulties I had with Photostory3 I think I would seek out a different presentation tool to work with staff. i don't think i would have occasion to use this with students other than to assist staff in planning units around the use of this type of software.
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